Chapter 490 – One Mountain to Examine One Person (1/2)
Chapter 490 - One Mountain to Examine One Person
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Mo Yu said indifferently, ”In the end, it all depends on your own decision. If you're asking for my opinion, you winning over her is best. Anyhow, I find her unpleasant to the eye.”
Chen Changsheng was rather puzzled. ”I remember you saying that you were very good friends with her.”
”Between friends is when it's easiest to find each other unpleasant.”
Mo Yu turned and walked out of the library.
While Chen Changsheng and Mo Yu were speaking, Tang Thirty-Six had kept his silence. Only after her figure had disappeared from the library did he walk up to Chen Changsheng and stare him in the eyes without saying anything.
”You're also rather scary this way,” Chen Changsheng commented.
Tang Thirty-Six continued to stare into his eyes. ”Everyone says that the eyes are the window into the soul. I really want to see just how much more you're hiding from us.”
”What did I hide from you?”
”How did I not know that you were so familiar with Grand Lady Mo?”
Chen Changsheng didn't know how to explain.
The two belonged to different factions but were privately in touch…but this was a minor concern. The most important was that the reason he and Mo Yu knew each other was impossible to speak about. No matter how lofty Mo Yu's status, she was still a beautiful woman and her reputation was important. He couldn't just tell the entire world that the fairy-like Lady Mo Yu would climb onto his bed and sleep whenever she wasn't busy…
”Chen Changsheng, you're pretty good.” Tang Thirty-Six sighed, ”Your sheath is the divine artifact of the Li Palace, the Vault Sheath, your sword will also become one of the famous objects on the Tier of Legendary Weapons, your fiancée is Xu Yourong, you have a female student in Luoluo, and now you even have some sort of fuzzy relationship with the Grand Lady Mo beloved by all men of the Great Zhou…”
Chen Changsheng seriously said, ”I have to clear this up, I haven't even touched her hand before.”
Tang Thirty-Six's expression showed that he clearly didn't believe this, but in the next moment, he became very stern. He said gravely to him, ”Keep your distance from her.”
Chen Changsheng understood his meaning and nodded his head.
Tang Thirty-Six advised, ”Remember my words, this woman isn't simple and her temperament is merciless. Even if you're doing business, you shouldn't choose her.”
Chen Changsheng recalled the Mo Yu that had imprisoned him in the Tong Palace and nodded his head once more.
And then he thought of the Black Dragon in the depths of the Tong Palace, how he had been too busy recently and that it had already been quite a few days since he had last been to New North Bridge.
”Tonight, there's something I have to go out for,” he said to Tang Thirty-Six.
Tang Thirty-Six sneered at him, ”See, this is yet another secret.”
Chen Changsheng laughed but said nothing more.
Shoulder to shoulder, the pair walked out of the library, when suddenly Tang Thirty-Six said, ”In the future, I won't blame you for that matter anymore.”
Confused, Chen Changsheng looked at him and asked, ”What matter?”
”Last year in the inn, I wanted to hold your sword, but you didn't let me. This matter always made me very unhappy…now that I think about it, I had only just got to know you back then. It makes sense for you to be a little cautious.”
That head manager from the Pavilion of Divination had just ascertained the worth of Chen Changsheng's sword. Tang Thirty-Six thought to himself, if it were me, I would also treat this sword as a precious treasure and not easily show it to others.
Chen Changsheng was dazed for a few moments before finally recalling that old matter. Shaking his head, he said, ”You were holding a bit too much of a grudge.”
Tang Thirty-Six perked his straight eyebrows as he said, ”Did you know that the stars the demons can see where they live are much less than what we can see?”
This fact was recorded in the Daoist Canon. Moreover, it wasn't too long ago that Chen Changsheng had returned from the snowy plains, so he was very aware of this fact and nodded his head.
”At night, our sky is covered all over with stars, but it's different over there. There are some places where the stars are densely packed and others where they're very sparse. The stars close to each other form a picture.”
”I know. Nanke's Southern Cross Sword was realized from the two of rivers of stars in their night sky.”
”The river of stars is very broad and vast. What we're going to talk about is something within the river of stars.”
”What thing?”
”The demons will take differently shaped combinations of stars and call them constellations. Those born at different times of the year will belong to different constellations and possess their own special characteristics.”
”And then?”
”If I were born on the demons' side, then based on my date of birth, I should be under the Heavenly Scorpion Constellation.”
Chen Changsheng halted his steps. He recalled that the Daoist Scriptures really did record this sort of information, but he didn't understand why Tang Thirty-Six had so suddenly brought it up. It must be known that the demons and humans had always had different cultural contexts. Moreover, in their own territories, the idols and objects of veneration of one side would become taboos of the other side.
”Right, that head manager of the Pavilion of Divination…” He paused in confusion because he realized that he couldn't quite remember what that head manager looked like.
The sword had been viewed just a few moments ago and his memory had always been good. How could he forget the appearance of a person he had just met?
Tang Thirty-Six didn't hear any further questions about constellations and was feeling somewhat frustrated, but upon hearing Chen Changsheng's words, he also couldn't help but be stunned.
He realized that he had also forgotten the appearance of that head manager. It was so bad that as time passed, the memory of that period of time was becoming fainter and fainter!
Not everything about that period was becoming faint, only matters concerning that head manager. He even had a feeling that when they were viewing the sword in the library, only he, Chen Changsheng and Mo Yu had been in the library.